Although I am enjoying this season of Smallville, sometimes I wonder about the writers and their train of thought. I mean, I am not one to pass judgment about fixating promiscuous young women (after a season of Buffy and Riley and Buffy and Spike, I am immune), but it's like the show just received an influx of writers used to writing for films with names like Passion Designer and A Midsummer Night's Cream One thing I do like is the expanded role of the ancestors of Krypton in the form of ancient myths from Europe, Africa, and South America. I generally like the way Smallville has expanded the Superverse, as it gives those of us who haven't had the opportunity to follow the comics as much as we like (or at all) to get a taste of some of the other characters. Personally, I am waiting for them to introduce Gus Gorman, played by Richard Pryor in Superman III, but I may be the only one hoping for that.
A lot of the early part of this season has centered on the walls of the cave in Smallville with all of the Kryptonian symbols. So far, we know that there are three stones that are said to hold great power and whoever possesses them will have a wealth of knowledge previously unknown to any person alive. Clark has one stone already inside the cave. He stole it from Lex, who was digging up some things in Egypt. We know the location of a second stone, the one that means water or transference. Lionel used it to temporarily switch bodies with Clark, and it is know in the hands Bridgette Crosby of the Swann Institute. Lana has the same symbol on the transference stone tattooed on her body thanks, it seems, to an old relative, who was burned at the stake in France for being a witch, and that is how we start off this week.
We have a flashback to 1604, and although French Catholics were mostly busy ridding themselves of those crazy Protestants at the time, who can't find some time to burn a few witches at the stake? Lana's ancestor, the Countess Isabella Thoureau(also played by Kristin Kreuk) was just about to get burned at the stake along with two of her accomplices. Somehow, somebody had taken their book of spells, so of course the were powerless. Before you execute anybody, you have to give them one last chance to live, and that is the case here as the mayor or whoever is ordering the immolation asks Isabella one more time about her witchcraft. Isabella sees that he has the book and wants to know about the "three stones of power". She casts a spell, which places the now familiar tattoo on her back, and then spits some blood on the book. The mayor, having enough, orders the peasants (who sound more Piker than they do French) light the pyres, and the flames engulf the witches. Isabella is cackling hysterically, so you know that it's going to take more than burning her alive to get rid of her for good.
Back in more recent times, Jason and Lana are enjoying some time to themselves. Poor Jason, he loses his job at the Smallville High, and now the only thing occupying his time is this hot 18 year old piece of ass he's living with. Lana has been researching the Countess, after all that happened to her in France, and used all of her money to buy the Countess' manuscript off of eBay, which is better than the generic used book salesman shows usually drag out when they usually have to find an ancient text. Lana opens the book and finds the page with the blood. She touches the blood, and we can see that when Isabella spat on the book in the first place, it was the final step in a transference spell. Isabella takes over Lana's body, and begins to go to work on whatever she had planned 400 years ago, and she has her powerful book to help her.
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HAPPY...happy..Joy..JOY!
The title to this post was enough to make my day...
1 of 5 | Posted by Christie | Posted on November 11, 2004 12:28 PM
I liked that the witches' first order of business was zapping a big stereo into a teen party. Apparently there's an ongoing subscription to Consumer Electronics in the witch afterlife.
Hey, witches just wanna have fun!
2 of 5 | Posted by b-side | Posted on November 11, 2004 12:42 PM
I can't take credit for the title, since it was a line used in the episode by Lana herself, but I thought it was quite fitting.
3 of 5 | Posted by J-Unit | Posted on November 11, 2004 1:03 PM
smallville plots are really complicated...way more complicated than porn! there goes that theory j-unit.
4 of 5 | Posted by merlatonin | Posted on November 11, 2004 3:12 PM
"I am not sure if Mr. Welling was only acting that Clark sucked at dancing, but he would have made Elaine Benes look like Baryshnikov in comparison."
"These are really horny witches, you must understand. "
Killer lines. It could have been more fun if KK was a better actress. Her evil (laugh) wasn't appropriately seductive. Evil feels good! You're supposed to be enjoying the mayhem.
Where exactly did the girls get their party gear. Was that just hanging in the back of the closet? What are teenagers wearing nowadays.
Was this episode suggesting that magic itself is really Kryptonian power? The witches's power seemed directly derived from these talismans. That would be an interesting spin.
5 of 5 | Posted by Lady J | Posted on November 11, 2004 8:57 PM